MegaFood Q&A

Here are questions regarding MegaFood Validated Wholefood Nutrients quality standards and ingredients.  Enjoy!

ABOUT MEGAFOOD

The Leader in Whole Food Nutrients
For over 30 years MegaFood has been the recognized leader in providing the highest quality bio-available and effective Whole Food Nutrients.
Guaranteed Results from a Supplement Requires:

Whole Food with all its Vital Food Factors
Validation Documentation of the formula's Components Quality
Cold Fusion FoodState Nutrients
Cold Fusion creates a nutrient breakthrough. Cold Fusion provides a validated union between inorganic fractions and the Whole Food Matrix. This innovation creates Superior Intelligent Nutrient Delivery.

The Leader in Quality Validation
MegaFood is the Quality Food Nutrient Company. Quality is only a word unless it's Validated with testing. Validation Documentation through Assays, ensures the quality of MegaFood's supplements. This is MegaFood's Quality Guarantee:
The Foundation of Durham Research, Inc.

Delta Analytical Laboratories, Inc. Established

Validated Nutrients with Assays

Cold Fusion Nutrient Breakthrough

Superior Nutrient Intelligence

Cold Fusion FoodState Nutrients

Full Absorption within 30 Minutes

All MegaFood Formulas Are 100% Satisfaction Unconditionally Guaranteed!

MegaFood manufacturers all products, in their facility, to meet stringent USA and International Standards. MegaFood tablets are formulated WITHOUT Artificial Colors, Flavors, Sugars or Preservatives. Product Potency and Quality are guaranteed by our Validation Program.

MegaFood DailyFoods Line
 

Their Whole Food Philosophy - No Altered Foods!  DailyFoods always delivers 100% Wholefood.  DailyFoods will never deliver Altered Foods and call them Whole. DailyFoods will only offer Food nutrients As Nature Intended.  As a result, you do not need to take them with food, as they are food.

DailyFoods has positioned itself to deliver time tested and scientifically validated nutritional formulas.  To achieve this goal they believe it is necessary to deliver their nutrients As Nature Intended.  WholeFood. 

DailyFoods believes that any form of food that is not available in nature, in the wild, in the field or in the garden is altered.  That doesn't mean those forms of foods do not serve a purpose.  It only means they are not Whole.  MegaFood does not offer such items. Only WholeFood, Unaltered, Validated.  MegaFood does not use soy or soy parts.  They offer vegetarian as well as gluten free products. Look for the symbol to indicate.

MegaFood Essentials Full Color Spectrum FoodBased Nutrition Line
 

MegaFood produces a FoodBased line of nutritionals that use the Full Color Spectrum. Why the importance of Full Color Spectrum? Worldwide research, including studies done by the National Cancer Institute, indicates the importance of including a full spectrum of colorful whole foods (reds, blue, green, yellow, orange) in the daily diet.  The color pigments in whole foods, such as anthrocyanins, carotenes, chlorophyll and flavonoids, are recognized as being essential protective components of our diet.  "Essentials" helps meet the challenge by including a daily dose of full color spectrum pigments.  What nutrients do each color offer? It varies.  It would be easier for us to specify the Nutrient (phytonutrient Macro Nutrient to be precise).  Vitamin C - Red; Chlorophyll - Green; Bioflavanoids - Purple, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red; Betanin - Red, Purple; Anthocyanin - Blue, Deep Red; Sulforaphane, Lutein - Green; Alpha & Beta Carotenes - Orange; Rutin - Orange; Lycopene - Red.  Carefully chosen food base containing a Full Color Spectrum gives "Essentials" a marked Advantage!

• Full Color Spectrum FoodBased Nutrition
• 70% - 93% Whole Foods Extracts
• Not Just Any Food - The Right Food
• Vital Food Factors Providing Protein Chaperones
• Enhanced Utilization
• "Essentials" Minerals are Amino Acid Chelates
• "Essentials" Uses Only Extracted Herbs
• Tablets are FREE from Corn, Milk, Wheat and Yeast
• Formulated WITHOUT Artificial Colors, Flavors, Sugars or Preservatives
• Product Potency and Quality guaranteed by independent laboratory tests

MegaFood Nutritional Therapeutix Line
 

These formulations have a Specific Response for Physiological Challenges.  Specific Response Formulas are free of Herbicides, Pesticides and Soy.  MegaFood continues to focus on Food as they realise that Whole Food is necessary and has a powerful synergistic effect on results.

• Specific Response is an explicit physiological action
• Specific Response requires Intelligent Nutrients
• Intelligent Nutrients are created in Food
• Specific Response is always Driven by Food
• Nutritional Therapeutix is Driven by Food
• Extraordinary Raw Materials
• Handcrafted in their own FDA Registered Facility
• Formulated WITHOUT Artificial Colors, Flavors, Sugars or Preservatives

Nutritional Therapeutix Formulas are created to convey the definition of Strength: "The Capability of Generating an Action or Effect."  This is based on traditional use and published scientific research.

QUESTIONS

What does Vital Food Factor mean?

Without food, a supplement is not nutritious. Food has intelligence, the ability to know what to do with the nutrients it carries. These are called Vital Food Factors. One factor is known as a Protein Chaperone. In 1999 it was discovered that each protein (chaperone) carries in its structure the information (intelligence) needed to specify its proper location in the cell. You could say they act as zip codes or addresses. Supplements without these would require you to eat with each supplement taken.

What is Full Color Food Spectrum mean?

It means that your getting foods from all the variety of colors in the garden, the greens, yellows, reds, purples, etc. So often supplements neglect these phytonutrients and our diets certainly do not get enough of them.

Is this product cold pressed?

MegaFood uses Cold Fusion. Keeping the food cold is at the forefront of everything they do. No expense was spared to create this cold fusion process. This process involves using fresh frozen fruits, vegetables and Live yeast in the creation of their products to preserve their nutritive value. They want Fresh Food that maintains its cellular life force. Cold Fusion suspends and maintains the cellular life force, prevents thermal deterioration and bacterial contamination. All the foods are kept frozen until the final stages of nutrient transformation.

Do you need to eat with MegaFood Nutrients like other brands suggest?

No. MegaFood is a FoodState Nutrient, so just as if you would eat broccoli, the body knows exactly what to do with the nutrients broccoli contains, your MegaFood supplement will also know. This is a major difference between other brands. You can also chew it. You'll notice the texture is quite different as well than other brands. You can see the food in the supplement.

Can the product go bad quicker?

It does have a 2 year shelf life, however just as food spoils and smells bad, you will know if your MegaFood supplement has gone bad because it will spoil just the same.

Should the nutrients be higher than what is provided in a daily serving of their products?

Actually whole food is different than what is mostly available on the market. Your getting the entire apple you might say, not just the citric acid, one small percentage of the apple. Your body understands what to do with the food then, and does not require such high doses. See the question below on Marked Whole Foods to further explain.

I noticed that the product is not certified organic, does that mean it is not as pure as organic or does not meet organic standards?

Actually Validated does not meet organic standards, it exceeds them. The value of a supplement begins with the handling of the raw material. The finished material is only as Valid as the weakest link in the processing. When dealing with raw materials, especially foods, there are a series of events that must be controlled for the finished product to be the highest quality. No matter what the intent of the finished product, Cold Fusion FoodState, whole food, organic, cultured or food based, the condition and Quality of the raw materials used throughout the process is crucial. Validation Documentation is a measure of the raw material now. True nutritional value should be measured through the support of laboratory analysis and Documented Validation.

What is Marked Whole Foods and Marking To A Maker to Guarantee Whole Food Activity mean?

One approach to establishing the quality of raw materials is to set minimum levels of quality through Marker Compounds for each raw material. This process is known as "Marking To A Marker. The markers Validate phytonutrient levels and therefore the quality of the raw materials. Marked To A Maker Validation testing reveals that when a Marker Compound is high in a specific raw material, other phytonutrient compounds in that material measure high as well. When Sulfurophane, Beta Carotene and Vitamin C are at high levels in broccoli, other compounds such as Vitamin A, B Vitamins and Iron will also measure at high levels. Marker Compounds are the best Validation. It's impossible to measure every compound in broccoli to ensure its quality. Broccoli may contain as many as 20,000 individual compounds. No one knows the exact number or all the components that make up any food. Therefore we rely on certain identified marker compounds as a measure of broccolis quality. Marked To A Marker is not perfect. It is the best current method to Validate the quality of raw materials.

MegaFood is the first company, and currently the only company, to offer "Quality Marked" fruits and vegetables in our formulas. Specific marker compounds are used to Validate the Quality of our raw materials. This concept, created a whole new category of supplements, Quality Marked Whole Foods. This was the beginning of an important step for MegaFood, requiring Validation Documents for the foods used in our formulas.

There exists considerable debate and uncertainty as to the definition of Quality in relationship to supplements. There are many tests that can be performed using HPLC, TLC, IR, NMR and other testing methods to Validate supplements. This testing is expensive; therefore, validation is not routinely performed. MegaFood believes that it is crucial to the future of the Health Food Business to Validate the Quality of our supplements.

We can objectively measure the value of supplements and assure they are the highest Quality through analysis of the finished product. The material must pass a test that proves nutrient activity at the tablet or encapsulated stage.